Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [verb] two " in BNC.

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1 Powell and Pressburger could n't find the stories that expressed what they wanted to say to a contemporary audience , Reed suffered a loss of nerve after making two exceptional films with Graham Greene ( Fallen Idol and The Third Man ) .
2 ‘ You ca n't erase a lifetime of habit by spending two weeks in the sunshine . ’
3 GrandMet has lost a lot of froth since giving two warnings in just a month of less than fizzing profits .
4 In other words , it is not arbitrary that the wolf and dog are closer to one another than either is to the cat , but it is to some extent arbitrary whether one recognizes some given degree of similarity by placing two species in the same genus , or in the same family .
5 One has just come out of prison after doing two years for bodily harm .
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